We will have the St. Michael’s Easter Golf Tournament on Saturday, April 10th. The tournament will start at 7:30am at the Kona Country Club (Mountain Course). The entry fee is $125 per person, which includes golf, lunch, and some prizes. The proceeds from this tournament will go towards our Building Fund. At the same time, we hope this event will foster the ohana spirit between our parishioners and the Kona community as a whole.
We are inviting all golfers of our parish as well as your golfing buddies to join the tournament. We are also seeking parishioners who can donate prizes or solicit donations from establishments for hole sponsorships and prizes. We will also need volunteers on the day of the tournament to handle registration, set-up, witnesses for possible hole-in-one plays, etc.
Entry forms and volunteer sign-up sheets will be available after all the Masses on the weekend of March 21st. For more information, please contact any of the following: Peter Callahan (315-7609), Lito Ilagan (322-4969), Scott Unger (960-5324), or Joann Ahlswede (433-8334).
Food Pantry Slips to be Distributed
This weekend at all the Masses, Food Pantry slips will be made available. Please take a food slip from the basket and bring the food item listed on it with you to Mass next weekend. This monthly plea to parishioners and visitors to help bring in food for our hungry brothers and sisters has been a godsend to many individuals and families in the Kona area. God bless you for your kind generosity!
Also remember to bring your breakfast dish for this Friday’s St. Joseph’s Table to feed the homeless.
Ministers Needed for Sunday 11am/4pm Masses
There are approximately 200 people who attend the 11am Mass each Sunday, but still not enough people to cover the Eucharistic Ministers or an alternate Sacristan. Won’t you please help? In order to give a break to those who already serve in those ministries, we would need at least three more Eucharistic Ministers to step forward, and at least one more Sacristan to give the current Sacristan a break every other week.
Please pray about this and consider offering your service to your parish. The season of Lent would be a good time to offer a few extra minutes on Sundays to help be a part of the Mass. Instructions and training will be included. Please also think about being a Eucharistic Minister for the 4pm Mass. Thank you for your prayerful consideration.
Important Notice!
Parking Problem — Library: We received a notice from the Library Staff that their parking lot is being used even during Library hours. We ask you to please “act in the spirit of good neighbors” to help alle viate parking problems:
Park in the lot next to the Library, especially on the following days (Saturdays, funerals, weddings, Ash Wednesday, Holy Week, Christmas) Library Hours of Operation – Tues day: 12-7pm / Wednesday & Thurs: 9am-5pm / Friday: 11am-5pm / Saturday: 9am-5pm / Sunday and Monday: Closed
The area behind the Library is not public parking; please do not park there at all.
We have been asked to relay the request that you not park on the grass area under the trees behind the Library. Pressure from vehicles on the irrigation pipes in that area breaks the pipes and causes leaks, which increases their water bill astronomically.Again, please do not park in the Library parking lot if the Library is open; instead park in Uncle Billy’s park ing lot (where the Farmers’ Market is). Thank you for your cooperation.
Catholic Faith and Family Bible
The Season of Lent is the perfect time to read the Bible together as a family. We have a new Bible to offer you. It is written with families in mind. This Bible was developed by the same people who have given us the One ‘Ohana. We will, therefore, use it in our One ‘Ohana sessions.
The retail cost of this Bible is $29.99. We were able, however, to purchase them at a discount. They are now $20.00. If you would like one, please ask Carolyn at the Gift Shop table. She can take your name and number. Selling these Bibles is not the desired outcome. There is no profit in just selling them. Our goal is to get these Bibles into the hands and the lives of our One ‘Ohana families. —Cynthia Taylor – 960-0734
Closer Than You Think – “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” —Thomas Edison
Character— “A simple judge of my character is how I treat a person who can do absolutely nothing for me.” —Anonymous
Catholic Relief Services Collection This Week
Today we take up the Catholic Relief Services Collection. You are invited to give hope to Jesus in disguise. Give hope to the community that has lost its livelihood to a crop disease. Give hope to the refugee child, separated from her mother. Give hope to the immigrant, trying to keep faith alive in a foreign land. The Catholic Relief Services Collection helps to fund programs that give hope to refugees, immigrants, and the impoverished, including victims of war, natural disaster, and drought. Through humanitarian, economic, pastoral, and advocacy efforts, the Catholic Relief Services Collection gives hope. Please be generous in today’s collection.
St. Joseph’s Table: Friday – March 19th at 7:30am
“Having a St. Joseph’s table is a Sicilian tradition, a traditional show of hospitality whereby a table is set in a way similar to a shrine, with flowers, candles, and a statue of St. Joseph. Bread, pastries, and other breakfast foods placed on it are blessed, and a large portion of it is given to the poor. It is a celebration that combines feasting and food for the poor.” —2010 Sourcebook for Sundays, Seasons and Weekdays: The Almanac for Pastoral Liturgy, Liturgy Training Publications.
Come celebrate with our brothers and sisters who come to our Food Pantry. Bake something special to share. You may also bring red flowers in honor of St. Joseph. Bring donations to the kitchen before the 7am Mass on Friday, March 19th. May God bless you for your generosity.
Next Infant Baptism Session
The next session will be in April (none during Lent).
Baptism Session: (Mass, then Class)
Sunday, April 18th – 10:45am: arrive for the 11am Mass at St. Michael’s; please sit in the front row
Sunday, April 18th – 12:15pm: attend Baptism class in Kamiano Hall (approx. one-hour long)
Sat/Sun, April 24th or 25th: Baptism weekend
The Baptism form and a copy of your child’s Birth Certificate must have arrived in the office no later than Thursday, April 15th. If you are unable to get your paperwork in by that date, you must wait until the next session to have your child baptized.
If godparents are not parishioners, they must attend a Baptism Class at their parish, and have a letter from their priest stating they attended the class sent to the parish office, along with the Baptism form and baby’s Birth Certificate. Questions? Call Susan at the office.
Friday Lenten Schedule
Evening Prayer 4:30pm in Kamiano Hall
Stations of the Cross 5pm on the lawn
Lenten Simple Meal 6pm in Kamiano Hall
The following organizations are asked to provide readers for the Stations of the Cross (Lector’s notebooks will be available in the parish office) and prepare and serve a simple meal afterwards:
Mar. 19th Filipino Catholic Club
Mar. 26th Youth Group/One ‘Ohana
Instructions for Stations of the Cross Readers: (Notebooks are available in the office) Choose four Readers: Man #1, Man #2, Woman #1, Woman #2. Each Reader will be listed next to the Readings in the white notebooks. When it is your turn to read, stand to the side of Fr. Lio and face the congregation. Afterwards, please return the notebooks to that the next group may use them. Mahalo!
Instructions for Lenten Simple Meals: Have your food prepared and ready to serve immediately following the Stations of the Cross. Please clean up after the meal.
Fr. Bill Burton – DVDs
A number of you inquired about Fr. Bill Burton’s DVDs. Father sent one set for people to see. They are $40 plus a $6 shipping charge. These 3 DVDs offer a total of 6.5 hours of introduction to the Bible. You may either visit www.biblicist.
net to download the order form or pick up an order form at the Gift Shop.
Don’t forget that Fr. Bill will be returning in November to prepare us for reading the Gospel of Matthew in the next Liturgical Year. Mark your calendars. Father will arrive on the 18th of November and will be with us until Thanksgiving.
First Holy Communion Preparation Schedule
March 24th – 6pm: First Reconciliation at St. Michael’s
during the Parish Reconciliation Service (see bulletin)
~ Please watch bulletin for next One ‘Ohana Class ~
March: No Sacramental Preparation Classes
April 4th: Easter – No class
18th – 10am: Mandatory Eucharist preparation
May 2nd – 10am: Mandatory Eucharist preparation
16th – 10am: Mandatory Eucharist preparation
June 5th–8am: Mandatory Eucharist preparation/practice
6th–9am Mass: First Holy Communion
St. Joseph, Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Joseph, someone once joked, was indeed the perfect husband: the only major character in Jesus’ story who never utters a word! But the Gospel recounts and the liturgy celebrates his silent witness of faith-filled deeds: “With a husband’s love he cherished Mary, the Virgin Mother of God; with fatherly care he watched over Jesus” (Preface of Saint Joseph, Sacramentary). Catholic devotion, therefore, hails him as patron-protector of the universal Church.
Some cultures set a festive “St. Joseph’s Table,” welcoming the poor and strangers to feast with family and friends. Tradition keeps today as the anniversary of his death, which we presume was peaceful, with Jesus and Mary present. Thus, Catholics invoke Joseph as “patron of a happy death.” Descended from David’s house, which God finished “build-ing” through Joseph’s provision of a home for Mary and Jesus, he was, fittingly, a carpenter by trade; thus, patron of workers.
Spring, nature’s rebirth, begins between his feast and Annunciation (March 25), appropriately, since Joseph’s silent obedience and Mary’s “Let it be done to me according to your word” (Luke 1:38) usher in humanity’s spiritual rebirth.
—Peter Scagnelli, © Copyright, J.S. Paluch Co.
Like the man born blind, in our baptism we are washed and can see anew. We are transformed from not seeing (sinners) to seeing; from darkness to being children of the light. And also like the man born blind, we are sent to bear the Good News and through our encounters with Jesus come to believe.
Our being sent and witnessing to the Good News of Christ doesn’t have to be in such extraordinary, controversial circumstances as the man born blind. Our witness unfolds in the everyday actions of our lives, when we “produce every kind of goodness and righteousness and truth” (Second Reading). Daily we awake to our destiny to be children of light. We, too, must meet life’s obstacles not as daunting but as challenging us to deeper faith and more authentic worship.
—Living Liturgy™ Spirituality, Celebration, and Catechesis for Sundays and Solemnities, Year C · 2010. © 2009 Order of Saint Benedict, Liturgical Press, Collegeville, Minnesota. All rights reserved.
God’s most earnest desire is to give us His grace, since He wishes the salvation of all, but He gives it under certain conditions… Now, what are the conditions under which God gives grace and strength? I can answer in one word: “Prayer.” —Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos
Stewardship Report: Week of March 6th—7th
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# of Attendees |
Total Contributions |
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St. Michael’s |
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Saturday 5pm |
242 |
$1,579.00 |
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Sunday 7am |
315 |
$4,286.00 |
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Sunday 9am |
351 |
$2,217.00 |
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Sunday 11am |
131 |
$990.00 |
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Sunday 4pm |
124 |
$664.00 |
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Sunday 6pm |
205 |
$412.00 |
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Immaculate Conception |
51 |
$407.00 |
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Holy Rosary |
49 |
$526.00 |
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Totals = |
1,468 |
$11,081.00 |
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